FOLKTALES AND NURSERY RHYMES
(3) PS When a purple cat, gray rat, and green frog repeatedly refuse to help her make a cake, Red Hen does it herself. Humor and repetition in the text ("'Not I,' said the cat. 'Not I,' said the rat. 'Bribbit,' said the frog") is mirrored in the graphically playful placement of small speckled chicks, mixing bowls, and multiple tiers of the ambitious confection.

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